Mark
- Moves
- Jesus is heading to the cross, and has called us to carry ours as well
This morning
- Prediction of Death and resurrection a second time
- Disciples don’t understand so don’t ask
Let’s do the opposite
Jesus, what does it mean to carry our cross?
What needs to die in you and what needs to be raised to life?
Who is the Greatest?
Jesus asks what they are discussing
- They don’t answer for they are embarrassed
- if you want to be first, be last
- Jesus brings a kid before them, “whoever receives this kid, receives me and the one who sent me
Culturally, those things go together
- We live in a world that celebrates youth
- Opposite back then
Jesus, what needs to die?
- Pride, Me first
What needs to be raised to life?
- Serve, Least of these
Other guy
- casting out in Jesus name but not of them
What needs to die?
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What needs to be raised to life?
- Magnanimity - generosity
Divorce
- instantly, we as humans want to know the rule and how close we can get to it
- hard topic…we may have been through one in your family
NT
- marriage - one of two callings
- mutual self-giving love that points to the mystery of Christ and His church
- Divorce avoided, only acceptable - adultery, non-Christian
- abuse (violation of vows, crime, a matter of church discipline)
- Woman at the well
Casual
- flippant
- less power, more they suffered
Jesus
- Reworking our understanding of marriage
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- Jesus - it was always about something more
- Bound together to love and serve one another
What needs to die?
- Understanding people as means to an end for me
What needs to be raised to life?
- Self-giving love
Children coming to Jesus
- Disciples got in the way
- Jesus - let the come!
- In fact, come as them!
What needs to
- My pride
What needs to be raised to life?
- Curiosity, delight, glee to be run into the kingdom